Scriptwriters: AsyaGuseva, VasilisaJurenkova
Directors: Vasilisa Jurenkova, GrigoryJaroshenko
Camera: Victor Jaroshenko, Vladimir Egorov, Roman Jazikov, Aleksander Kurilo, Konstantin Ovchinnikov
Sound directors: Konstantin Saenko, Victor Brus

Antarctica - what is it, where is it? When life presents photographer GrigoryYaroshenko with a chance to get there and see the life of polar explorers, he has no choice. It's like going to the moon. Would anyone ever refuse? No, no one would refuse... but his wife is expecting their second child, and then his life turns completely upside down. The film is about a man’s self-identification in modern society, about the ability of men and women to accept new challenges, maintain and change their gender roles in the family.

Scriptwriter, director: Svetlana Stasenko
Camera: Irina Uralskaya
Sound director: Ekaterina Turaeva

Mongun Taiga is the highest peak of Tyva. In these mountainsYaks (Sarlyks) and Tuvan Yak-breeders live as a thousand years ago. They believe their shamans and worship the spir-its of Nature. Their children leave Mongun Taiga for the big cities — and never come back. Only those who cannot live without the wild beauty and breathtaking sense of freedom remain here in the mountains.

Scriptwriters: Tatyana Soboleva, DaniyalIsakaev
Director: Tatyana Soboleva
Camera: Nikita Aniskin
Sound director: Victor Mors

This is a story about an ecological disaster, adisappearing people and a brave woman who is trying to stop all that. The Nogai people are descendants of the Golden Horde who are living in the Southern Caucasus of Russia. They experience issues of language loss, identity loss, and lately, there has also been an ecological disaster. Formerly lush and green, today the Nogai steppe is turning into a desert. In the fall, the team led by Gulfira goes deep into the new desert for several months. Every day they walk for many kilometers under the icy sandy wind and planting branches of Juzgun - a shrub with long roots that can stop the sand. Will Gulfira survive in this battle for the homeland or will the Nogai land disappear along with its people?

Scriptwriters: Julia Lemark, Mikhail Petrov, Mikhail Shedrinsky, Irina Tomskaya, Aleksander Dozorets.
Director: Mikhail Shedrinsky
Camera: Artem Jakunin, Sergey Shults

The perfect athletic career – an Olympic champion, two-time World champion, three-time European and Russian champion in figure skating. However, in January 2023, a sudden illness nearly claimed Roman Kostomarov's life. He lay in a coma as doctors performed several surgeries, and were forced to amputate his limbs. Prognoses for recovery were less than one percent… yet he survived. Thanks to the love and support of family and friends, he never lost faith, embarking on the path to restoration.

Scriptwriter, director: Natalia Gugueva
Camera: Irina Uralskaya
Sound director: Victor Mors

When in March 1917 Tsar Nicholas II abdicated from his throne, 43 people voluntarily followed him into exile. Many of them paid with their lives for their choice to share the tragic burden of the royal family. The fate of the loyal subjects of Nicholas II is told by their descendants, as well as the descendants of the guards of the Ipatiev House, where the brutal murder of the royal family and its servants took place.

Director: Sun Lijun

Starting from 1922, Chinese animation has sprouted, developed, confused and explored for one hundred years in China's specific cultural context, the movie combs through the development history of Chinese animation, reviews the rise and fall of Chinese animation, and finds the root and power of Chinese animation development from the river of history.

Scriptwriter, director: Natalia Tsoy
Camera: Andrey Drannikov-Elinger
Sound director: Aleksey Bataev

The film is based on an exclusive interview with Alexei Leonov, recorded by his daughter, Oksana Leonova. The story of a boy who showed a talent for painting and dreamed of conquering skies from an early age, set against the backdrop of the country’s history. Becoming the first of the first in the world, despite a hungry childhood, wartime hardships, and real dangers to life — this is the path of our Hero. The best artist among cosmonauts and the best cosmonaut among artists — that’s all about him. About Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov!

Scriptwriters: Sergey Dogorov, Irina Vasylieva, Marina Gornostaeva
Director, cinematographer: Sergei Dogorov
Sound directors: Igor Gladkiy, Ivan Shirshov

Djulistan Mukhin, a guy from a village in Yakutia, suddenly becomes a star. His face is on the covers of the world’s biggest magazines. Hollywood awaits. He has got a couple of Yakutian films in his portfolio. He tries to get through at Mosfilm. Moscow greatly impresses him, but also asks him the main question: who are you?

Screenwriter, Director: Sharmin Mojtahedzade, Paliz Khoshdel
Camera: Sharmin Mojtahedzade
Sound: Mahan Khomamipour

Zahra is 27 years old. She is a passionate football fan, but according to the law, women in Iran are not allowed to enter the stadium. She's not alone. There is a whole community of women in the country who are willing to take any risks (including changing their appearance through injections) in order to watch their favorite team play live.

Director, Screenwriter, Editor, and Camera: Sarthak Karki and SmritiSubedi

While on a quest to find vanishing mountain cultures, the heroes discover a mysterious Tibetan village in the Himalayas of Upper Mustang, Nepal, where matriarchy is still practiced. They travel through the stunning landscapes of Upper Mustang, where they meet Aabha, the last matron of YaraGhara. A real gem - a unique film about the life of unique villages in Nepal - the last strongholds of matriarchy. The life of people, their daily concerns, objects of national culture are shown.